18 May White Water Canoe Clinic – June 14-16, 2019

Date:

June 14-16, 2019

Description

This Whitewater Canoe Weekend is the perfect opportunity for you to learn the paddling skills and safety techniques you need to enjoy paddling our wilderness rivers. The program is designed to provide excellent instruction in a relaxed and enjoyable setting on the Kootenay River.

Nipika and Black Feather have introduced thousands of paddlers to the fun and excitement of whitewater canoe tripping. We primarily teach a style of paddling designed to let you safely descend rapids in a loaded tandem tripping canoe. You’ll learn whitewater strokes, manoeuvers, safety as well as how to ‘read’ a rapid. With

whitewater skills, a whole new world of wilderness travel is open to you. After the clinic you’ll feel much more confident and ready to try one of our more challenging river expeditions. Many participants in our arctic expeditions take this clinic before their trip as a warm up and review.

This clinic is perfect for both beginner and experienced canoeists.

This trip on the Kootenay River will be using stable but responsive SOAR inflatable canoes.

Itinerary

Breakfast at camp, shuttle to Kootenay picnic area, upstream of Nipika review whitewater paddling skills and manoeuvres practice manoeuvers while paddling class 1 and 2 whitewater picnic lunch, with session on safety and river running procedures paddling to campsite downstream of Nipika sent up camp and evening campfire optional session on ‘how to pack and what to take on a canoe trip’

Day 3 – Sunday

Warm up, review whitewater paddling strokes and manoeuvres, practice and review, river reading and scouting longer runs in class 2 and 3 whitewater linking maneuvers with coaching paddling to our take out at White River Bridge shuttle back to Nipika Resort 4PM wrap up & departure.

Included

Guides – 5:1 ratio

Accommodation

• 2 nights camping on the Kootenay River

• tent accommodation (2 people per tent) or single supplement charge of $30.00

Nipika Mountain Resort teamed up with the Toby Creek Nordic club to host an amazing weekend of Nordic racing. Saturday we hold our classic races. Distances from 30km to 1km will give everyone a challenge....